On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Pavel Machek wrote:> > Linus, perhaps your scripts are doing something wrong? They should> have taken From in the description; or did I provide wrong changelog?

My scripts definitely do the expected thing.

In git, the author is always in the fixed header, and you never look forit anywhere else. However, in order for the author to _get_ there in thefirst place, the person who commits the thing needs to haev the authorinfo.

In this case it was me, and I get the author information from the emailwhen I commit an emailed patch. I take it from the first line of the bodyif that one is a valid "From:" line, and otherwise I fall back to takingit from the headers of the email.

So in this case you got tagged, either because the patch came throughAndrew (it has his sign-off) and _he_ sent the email but incorrectly hadyou as the "From:" person, or alternatively because you sent the email andtook Andrew's sign-off but didn't put the "From:" in the right spot.